MLB: Rays are The Team to Beat… So Far

Posted on | May 8, 2010 | No Comments

It’s hard to believe but we’re already almost 30 games into the 2010 Major League Baseball season. That’s about 1/6th of the season already down. And so far it has been the Tampa Bay Rays that stand above all the other teams.

Not only are the Rays the first team to reach 20 wins this year, they are the first team to win 22 games. No other team, except the New York Yankees, has won 20 games yet. The Rays are clearly playing the best baseball in the league. And they will most likely continue to be at least one of the very best teams. They have great pitching that will continue to carry them.

But the Rays are going to need to be really good in order to win the American League East. The second best team is nipping at their heals and they just happen to be the other 20 win team and the defending World Series Champions – the New York Yankees. The Yankees are looking even stronger than they were last year. This promises to be a great race. Throw in the Toronto Blue Jays playing better than average baseball and the always potentially dangerous Boston Red Sox, and you have an awesome division.

Is there another division in baseball that even comes close to the American League East? The easy answer to that is: no. Not even close. But there will still be great races in every division. Right now it looks like all the divisions will be battled out by at least 2 teams. And we’ve learned from past seasons that no team can be given the divisional crown in June or July. We’ve seen other teams start out great and then fade down the stretch. That very well could happen again this year.

But right now, as early May begins to turn into mid-May, the Tampa Bay Rays are the best team in baseball. But the Yankees aren’t far behind. Every other team in baseball is no more than a distant third.

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